Two Hearts Emoji
A pair of small pink hearts suggesting mutual affection and a soft, cute register.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Two Hearts emoji mean?
A pair of small pink hearts suggesting mutual affection and a soft, cute register.
Sweet and animated. The pair feels lighter and more playful than a single red heart, which makes it comfortable between close friends.
How to use 💕 naturally
Sweet messages between friends or partners where a red heart would feel too heavy.
Heart emoji express affection, support or enthusiasm, but colour and decoration change the intensity. The same heart can feel romantic with a partner and warmly platonic with a close friend.
From standard to slang
The history of 💕
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Two Hearts was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Two pink hearts, one small and one large, with the smaller one trailing. The pairing suggests movement, which is why it feels warmer than a single heart.
- Today
How its use evolved
Sweet messages between friends or partners where a red heart would feel too heavy.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 💕 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Look at the two of you 💕
Coffee tomorrow? 💕
Thank you for the flowers 💕
When to use it
Using 💕 clearly
Sweet messages between friends or partners where a red heart would feel too heavy. It lands as two hearts meaning or 💕 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the two hearts emoji
What does 💕 mean in a text message?
A pair of small pink hearts suggesting mutual affection and a soft, cute register. Sweet and animated. The pair feels lighter and more playful than a single red heart, which makes it comfortable between close friends.
Is 💕 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are two hearts meaning, 💕 meaning, pink hearts emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 💕 look different on another device?
U+1F495 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the two hearts emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 💕 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the two hearts emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 💕 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
💕 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F495 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 💕 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 💕 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F495 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F495} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%92%95 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F495
- Category
- Hearts & Love
- Also known as
- two hearts meaning💕 meaningpink hearts emoji
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